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Friday, March 2, 2012

Time Waste Removal Challenge 2012

OnGoodreads, there's a nifty little widget called the 2012 Reading Challenge. Basically, you punch in how many books you'd like to read this year, and it keeps track of them as you read them.

The truth is, I need this widget in order to be successful with the Reading Challenge:

2012 Time Waste Removal Challenge (So I Can Read More Books)

It goes like this. You make a list of activities you'd love to get rid of and proceed to get rid of them.

Here's my list:

Floor Crumb Sweepage. Why bother? They just reaccumulate anyway.

Depilatory activities. Talk about Sisyphean endeavor. Hair today, gone tomorrow, then back again.Whyyyyyyy do women do this? Oh yeah.We don't like being hairy.

Trips to Costco(a.k.a. The Warehouse of Doom) Wrestling with a package of toilet paper bigger than I am is NOT how I want to spend my precious life hours. But I do it. Again, and again.

Bathing children. I mean, you're done and a minute later, they have that puppy-in-the-rain smell again. Kids are dirt magnets. They need to patent that and sell it to the Gorilla Glue people. Or the Hoover people.

Enough of my ranting. I guess I'll get more time the old fashioned way...by not sleeping!

So. What activity do you wish you could get rid to make time for a good book?

LAUNDRY. First you sort it, then you wash it, then you dry it, then you fold it, then you take care of it ... and five seconds later the hamper is full again. Maybe we can eliminate baths and laundry both by just taking the kids outside fully clothed once a day and spraying them down with a hose. Of course, that would only work in the warmer weather months ...

Eating nice meals. Either I have to take the time to cook them or take the time to get dressed and to out to eat them. I wish my guy could get into eating cereal or yogurt for dinner...quick, nutritious and no greasy pots. But darn...he SUCH a guy. :)

Ooh, it's a toss up between vacuuming (two cats and a dog means my floors are perpetually furry) and tidying up after family members with "dropsy"--not the medical kind, the slobbish trail of shed stuff from the door throughout the house. I wish I could electrify my floor to zap the offending dropper. That might finally change the behavior!

That warehouse of doom gets me all the time as well. Darn their delicious sugary confections sold in bulk size that begs to be eaten up immediately.

And if it weren't for this whole parent and responsible citizen thing where having a job is necessary to pay those things called Bill, Bill and his other brother Bill, well, I'd have lots of time to read.

I'm trying to cut out TV time before my favorite show comes on. I tend to "turn on the TV" and get sucked into what is on. I've cut some of that out this year by firing up the Kindle instead of the TV until my show airs.

May I say Twitter and Pinterest and ALL THE INTERNET? Except I'm too weak-willed for that -- so! Re-reading books and stories. I love re-reading things I love: However, that also means I have less little time (and increasingly less interest) for new books, new stories.

I would love to give up hygiene in general...I mean, it's such a chore to spend a whole hour total in a day to brush teeth, floss, take shower, wash hair, wash face, put on acne medicine, and all of that jazz. I would much rather prefer reading a good book like The Fountain. :)

I've put your book on my to-read list, Lydia! Hopefully I will find some time to order it and read it this year. <3

Most people struggle with the issue of waste removal, particularly when they have to do it frequently, especially in their gardens or workplaces. A lot of garbage gets generated when people move to a new house or office.

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